Rainfall data from Madeira, Portugal, from January 1973 to June 2018.
madeiraThe madeira data frame has 544 observations and 8 columns:
yearmonthYear and month.
precTotal monthly precipitation (0.01 inches).
amoAtlantic multi-decadal oscillation.
nino34El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), expressed by the NINO3.4 index.
npNorth Pacific Index (NPI).
pdoPacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).
soiSouthern Oscillation Index (SOI).
naoNorth Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).
After eliminating the dry events (i.e., zero precipitation) and the missing precipitation data (two observations) one is left with a total of 532 observations, and that is the version of the data analyzed in de Carvalho et al (2022).
de Carvalho, M., Pereira, S., Pereira, S., and de Zea Bermudez, P. (2022). An extreme value Bayesian lasso for the conditional left and right tails. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 27, 222–239.